Cyrea sexguttata (Mulsant) Canepari & Gordon & Hanley, 2016

Canepari, Claudio, Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2016, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVII: Systematic revision of the genera Cyrea Gordon and Canepari and Tiphysa Mulsant (Hyperaspidinae: Brachiacanthini), Insecta Mundi 2016 (486), pp. 1-180 : 132

121. Cyrea sexguttata (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera sexguttata Mulsant, 1850: 642 .

Hyperaspis sexguttata: Crotch 1874: 222 ; Korschefsky 1931: 196; Blackwelder 1945: 448.

Redescription. Female lectotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 2.0 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color black except elytron with 3 small yellow spots, scutellar spot round, discal spot triangular, apical spot transversely oval ( Fig. 652 ); ventral surface with antenna, mouthparts dark red, femur dark red with black apex, tibia red; abdomen dark brown. Head punctures small, separated by 4 times a diameter, each puncture as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than on head, separated by 2 to 4 times a diameter; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by twice a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by twice a diameter. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus as long as about 6 eye facets, strongly angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, brown. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides nearly straight, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded, basal margin with faint trace of bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia without oblique angle, outer margin smooth, sponda small ( Fig. 653 ). Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent before prosternal base, single carina extended to base. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite angled to ventrite apex, rounded along base, then rounded forward to lateral 1/4 of ventrite. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, wide, narrowed from base to acute apex; bursal cap with 2 sclerotized arms, apical strut long, narrow with widened apex ( Fig. 654 ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Brazil, “Matto-Grosso.”

Type depository. MNHP (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Known only from the type locality ( Brazil).

Specimen examined. 1. The lectotype.

Remarks. Cyrea sexguttata has a dorsal color pattern similar to that of several other Cyrea species , but the dark red femora with black apices and red tibiae are distinctive for this species. Males may have 4 yellow spots on each elytron because they may also have a humeral spot.

A type specimen in the MNHP labeled “Museum Paris, Matto-Grosso, de Castelnau 13-47/166/ Cleothera sexguttata Muls. , auct. det.” is designated as the lectotype.

Figures

Figures 649-654. Cyrea spp. 649-650) Cyrea octupla. 649) Habitus. 650) Female genitalia. 651) Cyrea flavocalceata. 651) Habitus. 652-654) Cyrea sexguttata. 652) Habitus. 653) Proleg. 654) Female genitalia.